I understand that the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (“HMTC” https://www.holocaust-nassau.org/ ) in New York has a plan to build the Permanent Exhibition of Comfort Women in cooperation with the Korean American Public Affairs Committee (“KAPAC” http://kapacusa.org/en ).

It is important to understand that “comfort women” in question means “prostitutes” for Japanese military people during World War II. The monuments built in Nassau County, New York, and in Bergen County, New Jersey say “more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted for the use of sexual slavery by the armed forces of the government of Japan 1930’s – 1945 known as ‘Comfort Women”. These words are not true. The researches made by the Japanese government and specialists have proved that those comfort women were not abducted by Japanese military people.

I know that human trafficking existed during the war time, and it was a social problem. Not only in Japan but also in places in Asia there were women who worked as comfort women for their family members owing to poverty. During the Korean War and the Vietnamese War, there were many such women.

HMTC has targeted only the comfort women for the Japanese military people based on the fabricated stories on them, and is attempting to exhibit phony propaganda displays.

HMTC says, “Since 2007, nearly 180,000 students, teachers, employers and law enforcement personnel have participated in the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center’s education programs, including 130,000 students”. It is unbelievable that the respectful HMTC is going to exhibit fabricated stories to give wrong education to many people.

I hope that HMTC’s staff check not only materials presented by Koreans but also many other materials as quoted below.

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Kiichiro Higuchi,Japanese Army general recorded in the Golden Book of Israel

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7744891

Japan That Helped the Jewish Refugees By Uesugi Chitoshi

http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/25_S2.pdf

BEHIND THE COMFORT WOMEN CONTROVERSY: HOW LIES BECAME TRUTH
NISHIOKA Tsutomu, Professor, Tokyo Christian University and Deputy Chairman, National Council for the Rescue of Japanese Abducted by North Korea

http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/39_S4.pdf

NO ORGANIZED OR FORCED RECRUITMENT: MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT COMFORT WOMEN AND THE JAPANESE MILITARY
Hata Ikuhiko Professor Emeritus, Nihon University

http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/31_S4.pdf

Documents from United States National Archives and Records Administration

史実を世界に発信する会 より

組織的または強制的募集はなかった：慰安婦と日本軍についての誤った見方( 秦郁彦 元日本大学教授)
NO ORGANIZED OR FORCED RECRUITMENT: MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT COMFORT WOMEN AND THE JAPANESE MILITARY
Hata Ikuhiko Professor Emeritus, Nihon University http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/31_S4.pdf

『よくわかる慰安婦問題』（基督教大学教授 拉致被害者を救う会会長 西岡力）
BEHIND THE COMFORT WOMEN CONTROVERSY: HOW LIES BECAME TRUTH
NISHIOKA Tsutomu, Professor, Tokyo Christian University and Deputy Chairman, National Council for the Rescue of Japanese Abducted by North Korea http://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/39_S4.pdf